Massive gene transfer and extensive RNA editing of a symbiotic dinoflagellate plastid genome

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1408-1422

  Mungpakdee, Sutada ^a   Shinzato, Chuya ^a   Takeuchi, Takeshi ^a   Kawashima, Takeshi ^a   Koyanagi, Ryo ^a   Hisata, Kanako ^a   Tanaka, Makiko ^a   Goto, Hiroki ^a   Fujie, Manabu ^a   Lin, Senjie ^b   Satoh, Nori ^a   Shoguchi, Eiichi ^a  

^a OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate; Hydropathy; Light harvesting complex proteins; Minicircles; Plastid associated genes; RNA editing; Symbiodinium minutum

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DINOFLAGELLATE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID; PLASTID GENOME; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA EDITING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PLASTID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA EDITING; RNA, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 84902983272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu109     Document Type: Article

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